Tag Archives: large-scale data

Thanks to former Cloudera intern Jose Cambronero for the post below about his summer project, which involved contributions to MLlib in Apache Spark.

Data can come in many shapes and forms, and can be described in many ways. Statistics like the mean and standard deviation of a sample provide descriptions of some of its important qualities. Less commonly used statistics such as skewness and kurtosis provide additional perspective into the data’s profile.

Evaluating which streaming architectural pattern is the best match to your use case is a precondition for a successful production deployment.

The Apache Hadoop ecosystem has become a preferred platform for enterprises seeking to process and understand large-scale data in real time. Technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Flume, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and Apache Samza are increasingly pushing the envelope on what is possible. It is often tempting to bucket large-scale streaming use cases together but in reality they tend to break down into a few different architectural patterns,

The Transaction Processing Council (TPC), working with Cloudera, recently announced the new TPCx-HS benchmark, a good first step toward providing a Big Data benchmark.

In this interview by Roberto Zicari with Francois Raab, the original author of the TPC-C Benchmark, and Yanpei Chen, a Performance Engineer at Cloudera, the interviewees share their thoughts on the next step for benchmarks that reflect real-world use cases.

Our thanks to Russell Cardullo and Michael Ruggiero, Data Infrastructure Engineers at Sharethrough, for the guest post below about its use case for Spark Streaming.

At Sharethrough, which offers an advertising exchange for delivering in-feed ads, we’ve been running on CDH for the past three years (after migrating from Amazon EMR), primarily for ETL. With the launch of our exchange platform in early 2013 and our desire to optimize content distribution in real time,

Thanks to Victor Bittorf, a visiting graduate computer science student at Stanford University, for the guest post below about how to use the new prebuilt analytic functions for Cloudera Impala.

Cloudera Impala is an exciting project that unlocks interactive queries and SQL analytics on big data. Over the past few months I have been working with the Impala team to extend Impala’s analytic capabilities. Today I am happy to announce the availability of pre-built mathematical and statistical algorithms for the Impala community under a free open-source license.